North Korea makes a splash

New sanctions imposed by South Korea on the North has led Kim Jong Un to have a hissy fit with the firing of short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, making a huge splash and killing several fish and who knows what else.

The sea firing is the latest in hissy fit behavior in an escalating standoff between the North and South that started in January. Pyongyang said that it detonated an "H-bomb of justice" in a nuclear test, and later launched a long-range rocket.

The South since has closed a factory jointly run by the two Koreas and slapped sanctions on the North. The U.S. and South Korea began large-scale war games as the North threatened to nuke the South and the U.S. mainland. This brought great laughter to the U.S. and South Korea.


On Wednesday,  the North Korean media printed photos of a mock-up of a miniature nuclear warhead.  

North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (an oxymoron if there ever was one) said Thursday that the North will "liquidate" South Korean assets at the closed factory park along the North Korean border town of Kaesong as well as a scrapped tourism resort at Diamond Mountain.cThe statement from the "peaceful" committee also said that it will impose "lethal" military, political and economic blows on the government of the South to accelerate its "pitiable demise."

South Korea called the statement a "provocative act." They warned the North to keep its hands off South Korean assets, although the North didn't say what they planned to do with them. One possibility is to use the Diamond Mountain site for a basketball camp with Dennis Rodman at the helm.

The North's statement said the new sanctions were "laughable, unsightly," and called South Korea's female president, Park Geun-hye, an "American prostitute." 

They must have been trying to emulate a campaign debate or mistaken her for a Clinton escort.


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